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North has its own pipeline woes

Thanks for your story on the Dakota Access pipeline protest. Although it has been going on for months, there has been very little coverage in mainstream news.

The use of militarized police with tanks and billy clubs and security guards with attack dogs and pepper spray should remind us of how civil rights protesters were treated 50 years ago.

The route of the pipeline is contentious. It was rerouted to go through remote lands under treaty and to pass close to the Standing Rock Sioux water supply, apparently in hopes that only the few local people would notice.

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We are concerned in North Bay with our own pipeline issues. The dramatic aggressive response of the police and state in North Dakota is a wider message. We are noticing here and all along the pipeline routes that oil is being privileged over our water.

Where there is a spill into a water supply, the oil will literally be forced down our throats. We need to privilege our water everywhere.

Martha Gould, North Bay

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